Dave's Best of 2007 List

My Brooklyn friend Dave puts out a yearly Best-Of music list and I pass 2007's on for your enjoyment. Past lists have run as much as a couple years behind, but iTunes has obviously improved his productivity.

Obsessive? Nahhhhh

THE TOP 40 ALBUMS OF 2007

1. JENS LEKMAN - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Service Sweden/Secretly Canadian)
2. VARIOUS ARTISTS - I’m Not There Original Soundtrack (Sony)
3. AMY WINEHOUSE - Back To Black (Island UK ‘06/Universal Republic)
4. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - Sound Of Silver (DFA/Capitol)
5. VIC CHESNUTT - North Star Deserter (Constellation)
6. KANYE WEST - Graduation (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam)
7. JARVIS COCKER - Jarvis (Rough Trade)
8. ELLIOTT SMITH - New Moon (Kill Rock Stars)
9. M.I.A. - Kala (XL/Interscope)
10. NEW MODEL ARMY - High (Attack Attack)
11. ELECTRELANE - No Shouts No Calls (Too Pure)
12. GRINDERMAN - Grinderman (Mute/Anti-)
13. EL-P - I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead (Definitive Jux)
14. EMMA POLLOCK - Watch The Fireworks (4AD)
15. DINOSAUR JR. - Beyond (Fat Possum)
16. THE TWILIGHT SAD - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters (FatCat)
17. KRISTIN HERSH - Learn To Sing Like A Star (Yep Roc)
18. BABYSHAMBLES - Shotter’s Nation (Regal/Parlophone/EMI UK/Astralwerks)
19. BILL CALLAHAN - Woke On A Whaleheart (Drag City)
20. ST. VINCENT - Marry Me (Beggars Banquet)
21. THURSTON MOORE - Trees Outside The Academy (Ecstatic Peace!)
22. ROBERT WYATT - Comicopera (Domino)
23. MAXIMO PARK - Our Earthly Pleasures (Warp)
24. SPOON - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
25. RICHARD HAWLEY - Lady’s Bridge (Mute)
26. WILCO - Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch)
27. ARCADE FIRE - Neon Bible (Merge)
28. SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS - 100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone)
29. RICHARD THOMPSON - Sweet Warrior (Shout Factory)
30. EDWYN COLLINS - Home Again (Heavenly/EMI UK)
31. ELVIS PERKINS - Ash Wednesday (XL)
32. RILO KILEY - Under The Blacklight (Warner)
33. THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - Challengers (Matador)
34 THE CLIENTELE - God Save The Clientele (Merge)
35. OAKLEY HALL - I’ll Follow You (Merge)
36. MODEST MOUSE - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (Epic)
37. BLONDE REDHEAD - 23 (4AD)
38. THE WHITE STRIPES - Icky Thump (Third Man/Warner)
39. MARY WEISS - Dangerous Game (Norton)
40. ARTHUR & YU - In Camera (Hardly Art)


THE TOP 100 SONGS OF 2007

1. Paper Planes - M.I.A. Kala (XL/Interscope)
2. Icky Thump - THE WHITE STRIPES Icky Thump (Third Man/Warner)
3. Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time - JARVIS COCKER Jarvis (Rough Trade)
4. Beautiful Girls - SEAN KINGSTON Sean Kingston (Beluga Heights/Koch/Epic)
5. North American Scum - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM Sound Of Silver (DFA/Capitol)
6. Almost Ready - DINOSAUR JR. Beyond (Fat Possum)
7. No Pussy Blues - GRINDERMAN Grinderman (Mute/Anti-)
8. A Postcard To Nina - JENS LEKMAN Night Falls Over Kortedala
(Service Sweden/Secretly Canadian)
9. Rehab - AMY WINEHOUSE Back To Black (Island UK ‘06/Universal Republic)
10. Just As You Are - ROBERT WYATT Comicopera (Domino)
11. If This Ain’t Love (Don’t Know What Is) - NICOLE WILLIS & THE SOUL
INVESTIGATORS Keep Reachin’ Up (Light In the Attic)
12. Someone Great - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM Sound Of Silver (DFA/Capitol)
13. Debriefing - VIC CHESNUTT North Star Deserter (Constellation)
14. The Opposite Of Hallelujah - JENS LEKMAN Night Falls Over Kortedala
(Service Sweden/Secretly Canadian)
15. Stronger - KANYE WEST Graduation (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam)
16. To The East - ELECTRELANE No Shouts No Calls (Too Pure)
17. Sugarbaby - KRISTIN HERSH Learn To Sing Like A Star (Yep Roc)
18. High - NEW MODEL ARMY High (Attack Attack)
19. Budos Rising - THE BUDOS BAND The Budos Band II (Daptone)
20. Keep The Car Running - ARCADE FIRE Neon Bible (Merge)
21. I’m Not There - SONIC YOUTH I’m Not There Original Soundtrack (Sony)
22. Tonight I Have To Leave It - SHOUT OUT LOUDS Our Ill Wills (Bud Fox Sweden/Merge)
23. Myriad Harbour - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Challengers (Matador)
24. Young Folks - PETER BJORN AND JOHN Writer’s Block
(V2 Scandinavia ‘06/Almost Gold)
25. Our Velocity - MAXIMO PARK Our Earthly Pleasures (Warp)
26. Grip Like A Vice - THE GO! TEAM Proof Of Youth (Memphis Industries UK/Sub Pop)
27. Fluorescent Adolescent - ARCTIC MONKEYS Favourite Worst Nightmare (Domino)
28. The Underdog - SPOON Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
29. Can’t Tell Me Nothing - KANYE WEST Graduation (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam)
30. Take Care The Road You Choose - RICHARD THOMPSON Sweet Warrior
(Shout Factory)
31. Tasmanian Pain Coaster - EL-P I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead (Definitive Jux)
32. Shake It Off - WILCO Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch)
33. Lip Gloss - LIL MAMA 12" single (Jive)
34. Here Comes The Phantom - THE CLIENTELE God Save The Clientele (Merge)
35. 23 - BLONDE REDHEAD 23 (4AD)
36. Goin’ To Acapulco - JIM JAMES & CALEXICO I’m Not There Original Soundtrack (Sony)
37. Take Me To The Riot - STARS In Our Bedroom After The War (Arts & Crafts)
38. He Keeps Me Alive - SALLY SHAPIRO Disco Romance (Diskokaine Austria/Paper Bag)
39. If Silence Means That Much To You - EMMA POLLOCK Watch The Fireworks (4AD)
40. Ex-Guru - THE FIERY FURNACES Widow City (Thrill Jockey)
41. Hatchet - LOW Drums And Guns (Sub Pop)
42. All Cleaned Out - ELLIOTT SMITH New Moon (Kill Rock Stars)
43. Walking For Two Hours - THE TWILIGHT SAD Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
(FatCat)
44. Diamond Dancer - BILL CALLAHAN Woke On A Whaleheart (Drag City)
45. Valentine - RICHARD HAWLEY Lady’s Bridge (Mute)
46. Tears Dry On Their Own - AMY WINEHOUSE Back To Black
(Island UK ‘06/Universal Republic)
47. Umbrella - RIHANNA FEATURING JAY-Z Good Girl Gone Bad (SRP/Def Jam)
48. Carry On Up the Morning - BABYSHAMBLES Shotter’s Nation
(Regal/Parlophone/EMI UK/Astralwerks)
49. 100 Days, 100 Nights - SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS 100 Days, 100
Nights (Daptone)
50. Earth Intruders - BJORK Volta (Atlantic)
51. Lionkiller - CASS MCCOMBS Dropping The Writ (Domino)
52. Now, Now - ST. VINCENT Marry Me (Beggars Banquet)
53. Familj - DUNGEN Tio Bitar (Subliminal Sounds Sweden/Kemado)
54. Down Boy - YEAH YEAH YEAHS Is Is (Dress Up/Interscope)
55. Frozen Gtr - THURSTON MOORE Trees Outside The Academy (Ecstatic Peace!)
56. Make A Plan To Love Me - BRIGHT EYES Cassadaga (Saddle Creek)
57. The Rhinohead - VON SUDENFED Tromatic Reflexxions (Domino)
58. Nothin No - DAVID VANDERVELDE The Moonstation House Band (Secretly Canadian)
59. Heartbreak - CELEBRATION The Modern Tribe (4AD)
60. Box - TOKYO POLICE CLUB Smith (Paper Bag)
61. Ordinary People - NEIL YOUNG Chrome Dreams II (Reprise)
62. Dashboard - MODEST MOUSE We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (Epic)
63. An End Has A Start - EDITORS An End Has A Start (Epic/Kitchenware/Fader)
64. Do I Disappoint You - RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Release The Stars (Geffen)
65. Absurd Heroes Manifestos - ARTHUR & YU In Camera (Hardly Art)
66. Melody Day - CARIBOU Andorra (Merge)
67. Kookaburra - JOHN VANDERSLICE Emerald City (Barsuk)
68. White Hole - CHRISTINA ROSENVINGE Continental 62 (Smells Like)
69. Fake Empire - THE NATIONAL Boxer (Beggars Banquet)
70. Mobile Communication - BRAKESBRAKESBRAKES The Beatific Visions (Rough Trade)
71. Phantom Limb - THE SHINS Wincing The Night Away (Sub Pop)
72. For Reverend Green - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Strawberry Jam (Domino)
73. Walk Around - GHOSTFACE KILLAH The Big Doe Rehab (Def Jam)
74. While You Were Sleeping - ELVIS PERKINS Ash Wednesday (XL)
75. Bomb.Repeat.Bomb. - TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS Living With The Living
(Touch And Go)
76. Ruby - KAISER CHIEFS Yours Truly, Angry Mob (B-Unique UK/Universal Motown)
77. 15 Step - RADIOHEAD In Rainbows (self-released)
78. Stop And Think It Over - MARY WEISS Dangerous Game (Norton)
79. Silver Lining - RILO KILEY Under The Blacklight (Warner)
80. Free Radicals Lament - OAKLEY HALL I’ll Follow You (Merge)
81. Livin’ In The Future - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Magic (Columbia)
82. Home Again - EDWYN COLLINS Home Again (Heavenly/EMI UK)
83. In The Human World - MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO. Sojourner (Secretly Canadian)
84. Wonderlust King - GOGOL BORDELLO Super Taranta! (Side One Dummy)
85. No One - ALICIA KEYS As I Am (J)
86. Civil War - JOE HENRY Civilians (Anti-)
87. The Songs That We Sing - CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG 5:55
(Because Music France/Vice)
88. Threshold Apprehension - BLACK FRANCIS Bluefinger (Cooking Vinyl)
89. Pump Up The Volume - ART BRUT It’s A Bit Complicated
(Banana/Fierce Panda UK/Downtown)
90. Seize The Day - ADAM FRANKLIN Bolts Of Melody (Hi-Speed Soul)
91. Wolves - PHOSPHORESCENT Pride (Dead Oceans)
92. The Past Is A Grotesque Animal - OF MONTREAL Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
(Polyvinyl)
93. Business Time - FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS The Distant Future (Sub Pop)
94. There She Goes Again - RICHARD LLOYD The Radiant Monkey (Parasol)
95. The Dance - P.G. SIX Slightly Sorry (Drag City)
96. Harvest (Within You) - CLINIC Visitations (Domino UK ‘06)
97. Push - PHAROAHE MONCH FEATURING SHOWTYME, MELA MACHINKO &
TOWER OF POWER Desire (SRC/Universal Motown)
98. Green Fields - THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN The Good, The Bad And The Queen (Parlophone/EMI UK/Virgin)
99. You Can’t Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man - OKKERVIL RIVER The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
100.1234 - FEIST The Reminder (Cherrytree/Interscope)


The Top 10 EPs Of 2007

1. YEAH YEAH YEAHS - Is Is (Dress Up/Interscope)
2. TOKYO POLICE CLUB - Smith (Paper Bag)
3. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS - The Distant Future (Sub Pop)
4. BEIRUT - Lon Gisland (Ba Da Bing!)
5. THE WOMBATS - The Wombats (KIDS In America)
6. ARCTIC MONKEYS - Brianstorm (Domino)
7. BRITISH SEA POWER - Krankenhaus? (Rough Trade)
8. MATT POND PA - If You Want Blood (Altitude)
9. LAVENDER DIAMOND - The Cavalry Of Light (Matador)
10. DEERHUNTER - Fluorescent Grey EP (Kranky)